NCTE offers advice, helpful documents, and other support at no cost to teachers faced with challenges to literary works, films and videos, drama productions, or teaching methods. NCTE’s Anti-Censorship efforts are currently only funded to provide a public service to members and nonmembers when they are facing challenges to literary works, films, and videos.

NCTE Celebrates Over 25 Years of The Students’ Right to Read [http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/righttoreadguideline]Over these years the Council has voiced its opposition to censorship and promoted intellectual freedom. Currently NCTE’s anti-censorship work includes advice, helpful documents, and other support at no cost to teachers faced with challenges to literary works, films and videos, drama productions, or teaching methods. Watch the clip from the NCTE Centennial Film.

Rationales for Teaching Challenged BooksRich resource section included table of contents of NCTE's Rationales for Commonly Challenged Books CD-ROM, an alphabetical list of other rationales on file, the SLATE Starter Sheet on "How to Write a Rationale," and sample rationales for Bridge to Terabithia and The Color Purple.